Tuesday, October 21, 2014

[Twenty four years after the Rabbi
spoke the warnings written in this article was the start of a severe
economic crises in America. Morality is at its lowest level. Racial
tensions are high. Anti-Semitism took a dangerous escalation- the Jews fear for
their future. Will they come home to
Israel?]

I was born in this country, and I can’t recall ever, in my life, as much open
and vicious Jew-hatred as I have seen in our time right now, in this
country. I travel around from city to
city, and in every city Jews tell me it is unbearable. Attacks upon synagogues, attacks upon Jews,
all of which are of course buried.
Because the synagogue doesn’t want it to be know. The ADL wants to report “there were 55
incidents this year in the United States”, when actually, there were 55 incidents
in one hour in the United States.
On radio programs which I am on – the telephone calls – open, open
(anti-Semitism).

Two Reasons for Increased Anti-Semitism

What
has happened? What has happened in natural
terms? Of course, in divine
terms, the Almighty is ending it for us.
But what is happening in natural terms?
Two basic changes have taken place in this country over the last twenty
years. It began slowly, now it is
reaching its crescendo. We have seen the
death of what I call the “Auschwitz syndrome”.
What is the “Auschwitz syndrome”?
After World War II, it was hard to be an anti-Semite, even for an
anti-Semite. It was just difficult. And then the years passed – ten years, twenty
years, twenty-five years, thirty years, and a generation arose which was not
born at that time. And the “Auschwitz
syndrome” began to fade away, and the guilt began to fade away. No matter how many Holocaust programs were shown
on television, every year they had less and less impact. Indeed, they reach a point whereby they encourage
anti-Semitism, whereupon the anti-Semite says: “ Hey, you know, I know Jews,
and the Nazis, and they were probably right.” That’s what happens today. It fades away. And to help things along, there was the rise
of a strong Israel. Suddenly, Israel was winning. And that allowed the anti-Semite to cut the
albatross. Now it was OK. You see, the Jew are Nazis, and they
persecute the Palestinians, and now it was OK.
So the “Auschwitz syndrome” faded, and it’s gone for all practical
purposes. And you hear people speak
about the holocaust that the Israelis are perpetrating upon the Palestinians. A
Holocaust…So all the Israelis and all the Jews who ever called me a Nazi and
didn’t realize that when you call a Jew a Nazi, you cheapen the Holocaust. And you cheapen the concept of Nazi, which is
a very unique thing. And by you calling
a second Jew a Nazi, what you are telling the world is” Jews can also be
Nazis. Foolish people and tiny dwarfs
and pygmies, grasshoppers.

So
the “Auschwitz syndrome” is gone. And another thing has happened. After World War II, and until perhaps ten
years ago, the American people lived in an economic luxury such as we have not
seen ever in world history. No Roman
emperor lived as well as the average American did from World War II on, until
fairly recently. Life was good. And when life is good, the anti-Semite hates
Jews quietly. It’s not a big deal to
him. He hates Jews, but he’s too
interested in the Monday night football game.
I myself am amazed that so many people are here tonight that
don’t want to see the Giants massacre the Colts…

The Economic Crises

So
when times are good and he has his job, he has his beer and he has his TV set,
he has everything – he hates Jews, but it’s not that important to him. But as the economic sands of time begin to
run out, and as things get bad and they get worse and suddenly there is a
chill, there is a fear. I can sense a
fear in this country – people are afraid of what is going to happen, and they
have every right to fear it. This is a
country which is on the verge of economic horror, horror. In two years they expect the national debt to
go from 3.7 trillion to 5 trillion dollars, so they work for months and months
– this fiasco between Congress and this administration – and they say, “we are
going to cut 500 million dollars in five years”. Five years!
It is a joke – It’s a drop in the bucket. This is a country which is dying because the
thing that was saving it was the fact that the Japanese are buying Rockefeller
Center, Rockefeller Plaza – don’t be angry.
If they stopped buying it, no one
is going to cover the national debt. And
they are stopping.

The dollar is a weak dollar today. Can
you imagine: The Israeli shekel has held its own against the dollar now for a
year. Don’t clap! It doesn’t mean that the Israeli shekel is
strong. The shekel is weak; the dollar
is just as weak. The Japanese don’t want
dollars anymore, they want German marks.
And they’re investing now in South Korea, Thailand, Singapore. The banks here are shaking, they’re
tottering. In their greed, in the 1960’s
and 70’s, they gave loans to anybody.
The Congo came – you want money, take the money. Mexico came – take 100 million dollars –
take, take it, take. Suddenly, the Congo
couldn’t pay back. If that’s what a
banker is…did he expect the Congo to ever pay back in total? So hundreds of millions of bad loans are
being held by major banks: Chase
Manhattan, Citicorp – and they are in deep, deep trouble today. And on top of that, suddenly the real estate
market has collapsed and they are now holding several more hundred million
dollars of bad mortgages. That’s the
tragedy. That’s why suddenly, there’s a
hurry talk bout Chase merging with City.

There’s a myth that your money is
insured for $100,000. If the FDIC had 60 cents for every hundred dollars that
you have, I’ll swim back to Israel.
There is a myth that they are going to bail out the Savings & Loan
with 40 billion dollars. If they can
make it with less than half a trillion, it will be a miracle.

So for years, the new economists said, “Don’t worry about deficits, it
doesn’t matter. Deficits don’t
matter? I know that when my bank account
is in deficit, it matters to me.
The bank calls me up and says, “Rav Kahane, we have a little
problem. Would you like to come and
cover it?” A city can go a little deeper
into debt than I can, and a state deeper yet, and a country can go a little
deeper yet; but, in the end you have to pay the piper. So, America has lived beyond its means –
extra credit, credit cards – and give anybody credit, give kids credit cards –
anybody. Now it’s time to pay the piper,
there is no money, there is no money.
And should the economic collapse come it is the Jew who will be
blamed. It is the Jew. You can hear it already. You can small it in
the air.

The Racial tension – In all Colors

I
was on a radio program in Chicago. Every
single caller blamed the Gulf oil crisis on the Jews. Every single call. What you have now is the getting together of
all these crises – the economic crisis, the racial crisis – and there is a
serious racial crisis in the country.
It’s a serious one. It is a
dangerous one. Whites hate Blacks and Blacks hate Whites and they both hate
Jews. It is a terrible, terrible
thing. It’s not just Whites and
Blacks. Now in the West, it’s the
Hispanics and the Anglos – tremendous crises, which only proves all the more
the myth of the melting pot. Uh nechtiga tag –what melting pot? A
melting pot is fine until there is a terrible crisis and then two “objects’
occupy the same job at the same time.
That’s a law of physics, which I’ve changed a bit…

So
it’s not an accident that Jesse Helms is now putting on TV ads talking about
the unfairness of quotas. Quotas are
unfair. Of course, that is his trump
card. People are angry about quotas and
affirmative action, etc. And Blacks are
angry. You think that Blacks have no
argument? You think they are all bad? –
that everything the Blacks do is wrong?
You think that Bob Grant is your kind of guy? G-d forbid!
This Jew-hating fascist type.
That he says something good many, many times –you’re right. You think that bad people don’t often say
correct things? Of course they do – but
watch him, watch him and be careful of such people! People who are anti-Black will always be
anti-Jewish too. One doesn’t have to
love Farrakhan or Jesse Jackson to realize that he should be careful of racism
of all kinds – White and Black – be careful, because we get stuck in the
middle. Because the Whites and Blacks
hate us both.

The Pre-War Depression: Not a Criteria

We
have a serious problem – the economic crisis cannot be averted. There is no
way. This country is in for terrible,
terrible times. People tell me in the depression
it was also bad. It’s true. But first of all, who knows what would have
happened in this country if World War II had not ended the depression? If you think that Roosevelt ended it, you
don’t know history. World War II ended
it. It gave jobs finally, but more to
the point, it was a different era back then.
The American people at that time were a much stronger people in
character. Today, after 40-50 years of
good life and soft life, and the materialistic life, people are into
themselves. Unbelievable ego. Everything
is me, me – my life, my body, my-me, my-mine.
People are incapable today of making sacrifices and that’s the great,
great difference between today and what happened in the depression. The person who is fairly poor and gets poorer
– not so terrible. The person who has it and lost it becomes a wild animal, a
raging animal. He’ll not accept it and will look for a scapegoat. He’ll look for some target to blame. We Jews are the most visible, the most highly
visible in terms of power, in terms of money.
Of course, Wasps have more money than Jews have. Certainly, Jews are not into U.S. Steel and
banking and so on, and the real, real money is not Jewish money, but that
doesn’t matter because Jews are in those professions that are most visible.

How to Gauge anti-Semitism: Go to a Bar

So
in the bars, it sits the jealousy and the envy of the Jews which leads to
hate. The tragedy as I’ve said a million
times is that the average Jewish leader in this country has no idea what people
say ago about Jews in bars, because the average Jew doesn’t go into a bar – and
he should; he should be compelled to go into a bar. Every rabbi before getting “smicha”, before
being ordained, should be compelled to go into a bar and find out what the real
world is like. It isn’t a joke. I’m
serious. To hide in some little ghetto,
you never know what the world is. They
hate us with a passion out there, with a virulence which is frightening to see
and to hear. On every radio program I go
on, I hear, “why should we give you guys three billion dollars a year”? Anytime some fellow from the Israeli
consulate is asked that question, he comes up with the answer, “well, we help
you too, etc.” Baloney! The only way to get rid of that question is
to answer as I do, “I don’t want the money!
I want Israel to be a free enterprise state and allow private enterprise
to flourish and then we don’t want your money, I don’t want your charity.” So, that of course gets rid of the question,
but it doesn’t get rid of the anti-Semite.
He’ll go home mutter in his beer and pretzels. He’s still there. He’s still there.

Role of the Prophet – To See It and say It

The
rabbis tell us that G-d told Moses and Aaron.
“I’ll make you Jewish leaders on one condition that if they throw stones
at you, you’ll accept it.” Rather to be
pelted with stones and not with dollars.
That’s what a Jewish leader has to be!
Say the bitter truth, even though they won’t like you. They won’t like you; they’ll attack you, but
tell the Jews the truth if you love them.
If you love Jews, tell them the things which will make them angry, but
which can save their lives. That’s what
you have to do! Think carefully about
what I’m saying, and that is why we created this group called ZEERO, Zionist
Emergency Evacuation Rescue Organization.
It’s a name that provokes. And we
hope that as we spread this idea it will provoke Jewish leaders to attack so we
can debate the controversy that arises.
People will say he’s right; he’s wrong, and so on. Of course, this is probably the worst thing
you can ever tell any Jewish leader, any Federation leader – that he should
leave here, and go to Israel. What’ill
do there? .

The
rabbis say: “Who is wise? He who sees
the future”. It’s no big deal to see
“today.” A Jewish leader has to see
tomorrow.

Living in Israel – Difficult; Living Elsewhere –
Impossible

It
is coming here! It is coming here! Friday night I spoke in Brooklyn in shul, and
I had to walk through Bensonhurst, a white neighborhood – nice people, because
they’re white…Watching the people, the kids, you can smell the violence, you
can see the hate, you can see the envy – frustrated, bored, looking for action. You can see it. Those are the potential mobs. And G-d forbid, we will see it. So ZEERO is a very serious project of Kach,
and I mean a serious one. And I know how
hard it is to go to Israel – it is really hard.
Hard to make a living. My son
goes into the army every single year.
It’s dangerous and so on. All of
it is true. Everything that’s all
true. That’s all true. It’s hard to live in Israel, but it will be
impossible to live here, and if we go to Israel, at least there we can change
the country. Of course we can change it
and make it better and make it tremendous and make it safe. Of curse we can do that if we have the power
in the government, but here there is nothing you can do to change it, it’s out
of our hands. We are a minority and we
are strangers here. We’re stranger in
this land, no matter how many years we’ve been here.

It’s
not an accident that so few German Jews survived the camps. The Polish Jew did better. Why?
Because the Polish Jew wasn’t surprised.
It didn’t shock him that gentiles could behave like this. It didn’t surprise him, so he wasn’t
shattered inside, he wasn’t’ broken. But
the German Jew was psychologically shattered.
How could this be? I’m a German.
I’m a German. How could it be? How can you do this to me? The Pole knew he was a Jew. The German was broken because his whole
illusion was shattered. And that’s how
the American Jew lives. “I’m an American”. It’s the gentile who will teach you so
quickly that you’re a Jew.

It’s
no just in the bars, in the working class bars the anti-Semitism that you
see. When you see the news media and
their attitude towards Israel; it’s not anti-Israel – it’s anti-Semitism. Do you know why they hate Jews? Because among intellectuals there is a
jealousy of Jews. When Truman Capote,
the famous author, a sickness, a disease who represents all that is sick about
Western culture – when he spoke about the publishing business being a Jewish
mafia – you can see the jealousy. [He
writes] how Jews are over represented in publishing, in broadcast, in movies,
etc. Of course it’s so – they have
talent. Untalented people don’t like to
think it is because of talent. They like
to think they run it because their friends, their uncles, their aunts and so on
and so forth. The hate runs across the
board. You can see Peter Jennings’
anti-Semitism. You can see it! And when I hold press conferences in Israel
and I see them sitting around, you can watch them all – the hatred.

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Sunday, October 12, 2014

“I will grant peace in the land” (Lev.26.6): Perhaps you will say, “Well, there is food
and there is drink, but if there is no peace then all this is nothing!” Scripture therefore states, “I will grant
peace in the land” This teaches that
peace counterbalances everything.

Since peace is limited to its own time, it follows that
in wartime all traits associated with love, kindness and mercy are
redefined. It is then kind and merciful
to go to war against the wicked. Our
sages teach (Kohelet Rabbah, 3:[8]1):

There is “a time to kill” – during war; “and a time to
heal” – during peace. There is “a time
to break down” – during war; “and a time to build up” – during peace – There is
“a time to seek” – during peace; “and a time to lose” – during war. There is “a time to rend” – during war “ and a time to sew” – during peace…There is
“a time to love”- during peace; “ and a time to hate” – during war. There is “a time for war” – during war; “and
a time for peace” – during peace.

The word of the Living G-d! And how relevant they are to our day: there is a time for war – during war; and a
time for peace during peace. We might
ask why Scriptures must tell us that there is a time for war. Might anyone think otherwise? Our sages were teaching that, in fact, some
might really think so, especially with the insane, alien culture holding
portions of our people captive in its sullied hands. Above I quoted Tanchuma, Shoftim15:

“When you go forth to battle against your enemies
(Deut.20:1)… What is meant by “against
your enemies”? G-d said, “Confront them
as enemies. Just as they show you no
mercy, so should you not show them any mercy.”

We have to realize that the non-Jew who goes to war
against Israel is our enemy and not our friend.
How unaware people are nowadays of this simple yet profound
principle! Our sages also said (Sifri Shoftim 192):

You are going to war against your enemies and not
against your brethren. It is not Judah
against Simeon or Simeon against Judah such that if you fall captive they will
have mercy on you…It is against your enemies that you are waging war. If you fall into their hands, they will show
you no mercy.

Indeed, a timely war is a mitzvah, a duty, a kindness and
an everlasting act of righteousness. Ex.24:6, which enumerates G-d’s
attributes, ends by mentioning “truth”:
The L-rd, the L-rd, Omnipotent, merciful and kind, slow to anger, with
tremendous resources of love and truth.”
I have already explained that there cannot be “mercy, kindness and
tremendous resources of love,” without “truth.”
We often find the combination of “kindness and truth,” to teach us that
that same Deity who is “merciful, kind and loving,” is above all else a G-d of truth.

Likewise, G-d is described as follows (Ex.15:3): “The
L-rd is the Master of war, ‘Hashem’ is His name.” Despite His name being “Hashem,” a name
indicating mercy, He is still “Master of war.”
That same Hashem of mercy is also a Master of war against the
wicked. All this is the plain
truth. There is a time for war and cruelty
and a time for mercy, kindness and clemency.
It all depends on G-d’s laws, the laws of war by the Master of war. Our sages said (Mechilta,Ibid): “The L-rd
is the Master of war, Hashem is His name:

Our sages teach us a great lesson here regarding love for
one’s fellow Jew and the duty one bears to him:
It is not enough for a Jew not to murder. Surely, “Turn away from evil” (Ps.34:15)
applies here, but a much weightier duty applies too: he must do all he can to save
his fellow Jew from danger, to eradicate every danger and mishap, to defeat
every foe who imperils the Jewish People before he can harm them.

A non-Jew who tries to attack or kill a Jew must be
punished, and if that non-Jew flees to save himself from punishment, it clearly
is not just permissible but a mitzvah and duty to shoot to kill him. Whoever opposes this and orders that the
enemy be allowed to flee, thereby enabling him to return later and kill Jews,
will never be able to rise up and proclaim, “My hands have not spilled this blood.” He is aiding a rodef, is allied to
murderers of Jews, and should be treated like a criminal

(Moreover, such non-Jews not only fail to accept upon
themselves taxes, slave status, and G-d’s and Israel’s sovereignty over the
Land, but they declare war on the Jews, attacking and murdering us. We are duty-bound to wage a milchemet
mitzvah against them, a compulsory war, and they deserve death, as I shall
write below.)

King David said (Ps 9:17), “The L-rd has made Himself
known. He has executed judgment.” That is, the nations will know G-d and His
glory only when he executes judgment in His war against them.

He also said (Ps 24:8), “Who is the King of glory? The L-rd strong and mighty, He is mighty in
battle.” The wars Israel was commanded
to wage were not meant to satisfy any selfish urge on their part, any craving
for land or desire for personal glory, but to sanctify G-d’s name and cast down
the wicked, who plunder and afflict the upright. Just as every part of Israel’s life must be
holy, so must be their wars.

Due to our sins, the reason we were exiled from our land,
the laws of war, have been so corrupted and confused by so many fine students
that ignorance on this matter has surpassed all limits. Some have no understanding whatsoever of what
a milchemet mitzvah is, and in their blindness ask whether the war
between us and the Arabs today is such a war.
Woe, to the ears that hear this!

Rambam writes
(Hilchot Melachim 5:1) In a milchemet mitzvah, the king need not obtain
permission of the court. Rather, he may
go forth himself at any time and compel the people to follow. With milchemet reshut, howoever, he may only
compel the people through a court of seventy-one.

Here is the law before us. Clearly, no king is needed either. After all, the judges who preceded Saul were
not kings nor were the Hasmoneans when they rose up against the Greeks. How long can our disgraceful ignorance of
these laws go on?-

Holiness and knowledge of G-d elevate a person from
bestiality, fear and confinement to trust in G-d. Kiddush Hashem brings the redemption
“speedily.”

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Sunday, October 5, 2014

MEIR KAHANE

WRITINGS 5732-33 1971 -73

NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM –MAYBE!

December 24, 1971

The synagogue if filled from end to end. Every seat is reserved, every inch of space taken up. The Yom Kippur Neila service is drawing to an end. A day of repentance, prayer and charity fades to a close. A congregation, elevated for a day at least, watches as the Shofar is raised and a long clear, vibrant blast fills the hall. Five hundred voices cry out spontaneously –

L’Shana Ha’Ba’ah B’ Yerushalayim! “Next year in Jerusalem!”

The crowd files out to begin yet another year of bitter exile amidst television and Miami Beach.

The synagogue is dark and hushed. A few candles flutter in the corners, their flickering flames lighting the pained and saddened faces of the congregation sitting on low benches waiting for the Tisha B’Av services to begin and the mournful tune of the Eycha – Lamentations – rises softly, punctuated by the sobs of the mourners for Zion. Every mind is shattered as the picture of the beloved homeland, bereft of its children, comes to mind. Every pious Jew sitting in the room sighs and dreams of the day - may it soon come - when G-d will allow him to, once again, kiss the soil of the homeland – courtesy of a three-weeks American Jewish Congress guided tour, and then back home again to the painful fleshpots.

The dream of settling in Israel is a basic part of the Jewish faith. It is an obligation but it is more than that: “It is a dream. How many seas would the tears of our ancestors have filled as they wept for the privilege of returning to Zion? How piercing would have been the totality of their cries as they prayed to the yoke of nations and bring us upright to our land!”

Who can begin to fully quote the letter of the obligatory law to settle in the Land of Israel as expounded by our rabbis and who can adequately describe the acceptance of the spirit of that obligation by our ancestors, the dreamers of Zion? What would they not have given for the opportunity of returning and walking four cubits on its soil? How they would have flocked to the airports and harbors as the great vision approached fulfillment!

I write this as a traditional, observant Jew. For myself I have written and spoken and pleaded a thousand times over to all Jews of America to leave and return to Israel – not for religious reasons – but for the elementary need to save their lives. I believe in the marrow of my bones that the days of the Jew in the Untied States are numbered and that there is coming a storm of physical brutality that portends a holocaust. What 48 prophets could not convince Jews to do, says the Talmud, Haman’s ring accomplished. There is a Haman’s ring in the American Jewish future and for the sake of our children and grandchildren the time to evacuate is now. I have said this and will continue to say this to all Jews. But, for the observant ones there is another, an added; perhaps, an even more important reason.

Every traditional Jew must take a long and deep look at himself. He must ask difficult and painful questions. How is it possible to honestly pray three times a day to the Almighty to restore us to Zion when that restoration is ours at a cost of a few hundred dollars, courtesy of El Al? What rationalizations can we invent to answer those who question our lamentations for Zion when the Jewish Agency is prepared to grant long-term loans for housing and transportation for those who wish to settle in Israel? What can hide our shame as we fervently proclaim “Next Year in the Land of Israel” when next year has already come, when the gates of the Holy Land stand open, when the obligation to return can and demands to be fulfilled?

All this has nothing to do with the particular religious Jew’s attitude toward the government or State of Israel. We speak here, not of political Zionism, but of the original and permanent obligation to go up and settle the Holy Land – an obligation that is clear and binding upon all - from the Mizrachi through the Agudat Israel to Amram Blau and the Neturei Karta.

What kind of Jews are we who profess a Judaism that builds up a dream in ritual and prayer – until it is at the very center of our aspirations – and then make a mockery of it in practice? Those who are able to return and do not must cease to weep salted tears and put an end to insincere lamentations. Let us rather admit that we have eaten too long at the fleshpots of Galut – Exile – and that the bribery of the good life has compromised and blinded us. When a famous Rosh Yeshiva chided Ben Gurion on the secularism of Israel, the then Prime Minister cunningly replied: “Let the American religious Jews come here and put me out of office.”

He could well afford to be clever for he knew that most would not come. The Catskills have overshadowed the hills of Jerusalem and the Rockaways conquered the Jordan and the Mediterranean. Electric appliances have replaced the flame of sacrifice and the television set the Book of Lamentations. In a sense it is symbolic of a general loss of ability to sacrifice on the part of the American Jew – and the religious one is little different. It is a sad and dangerous thing.

From the religious point of view there is a double tragedy here. What power lies in the hands of a dynamic religious immigration! What a noble impression and Kiddush Hashem – Sanctification of the Name – it would create in the young Israeli mind if religious Jews showed the courage of their convictions! What a Jewish State could be shaped out of a State of Israel!

Certainly it is difficult; to be sure there would have to be sacrifices in the economic standard of one’s life. Yes, there is a language barrier and no doubt employment would be a problem for a time and life would not be quite as materially sweet as back home with the good life and the American Nazi Party. But, since when has a religious Jew assumed that life was made to be sweet and that the Almighty placed him here so as to be comfortable? Is the excuse of economic difficulty enough to justify, in the religious Jew’s mind, the rationale given him by the non-observant for violating even the rabbinical laws of Sabbath? Is the Jew who tells us that economic need makes it imperative that his store remain open on the Sabbath since that is by far his busiest day, given dispensation? Do we calmly accept the decision of people not to send their children to yeshivot because of the economic difficulty involved or do we call upon them to make that sacrifice that is needed for the great commandment of Torah study?

Yet, here, on a question that every authority in the past has conceded is a religious obligation we find the religious Jew ready to join behind the Hadassahs , the ZOA’s and the Bnai Births in their shabby attempts to transform the Galut - the Exile – of America into such tortured sophistry as “chutz l’aretz” (outside the land). The very one who girds his loins for battle against all who seek to lighten some other halachic burden now suddenly descends into the intricacies of pilpul to explain that in reality Maimonides believes that the settlement of the land is only a rabbinical injunction (thus “merely” putting it on the same level as eating chicken with milk or doing business on the Sabbath); that one is free of the obligation if there is danger; that there are economic difficulties, ad infinitum.

No argument will blot out the shame of our craven surrender to materialism. The words we mouth in our daily prayers; the slogans we shout at the conclusion of Yom Kippur and at our Passover Seder all become empty and meaningless words when we have no intention of following them. It is up to the yeshivot to teach and to emphasize the religious obligation of a Jew to live in the Land of Israel. It is up to the traditional congregation to take steps to implement it. Mitzvat Yishuv Eretz Yisroel (the commandment to settle the Land of Israel) becomes more than merely another of the laws. It becomes a mirror reflecting our weakness and hypocrisies. Next Tisha B’Av it would do well for us to weep – not for the land but for ourselves.

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The blogs I am operating are Rabbi Meir Kahane Writings and Baruch Marzel to Knesset. The purpose of Rabbi Meir Kahane Writings is to educate people in the "Authentic Jewish Idea" and the warnings of future dangers written and spoken by Rabbi Kahane h"yd. Dangers we are living with today. Michael Ben-Ari's blog shows Ben-Ari's continuation of Rabbi Meir Kahane's h"yd activities and ideology in and out of the Knesset. Baruch Marzel is presently running for the Knesset under the banner of Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Strength). I and my husband have been working with Rabbi Meir Kahane since JDL days in N.Y. where my husband Chaim was on the Executive Board of JDL. I headed the Nassau Chapter until made aliyah in 1978. In Israel I was Head of the English Speakers of Rabbi Kahane's organization and also curator of the Museum of the Potential Holocaust started by the Rabbi. I went on speaking engagements in the U.S. and Canada. Organized Fund-Raising Dinners for Rabbi Kahane; worked in election campaigns for Rabbi Kahane ,Baruch Marzel and Dr. Michael Ben-Ari. We live in Ma'ale Adumim, Israel